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Show B8 Sports Commentary Northridge Boys Basketball &() . . B8 1 Thursday, December 9, wm WdCs o o 1 B7 Clearfield comes in second at the count y wrestling tournament w J llB, 'IWFI,,I H' 999 DddwSG CDoppi? 1 1 S Virt.F. JORDAN LIVINGSTON Clipper Todav Sports Editor , Bountiful and Woods Cross nabbing third and fourth respectively BOUNTIFUL - Tor the second straight tournament, the Viewmont High wrestling team showed that they are a real force m Region One this year The Vikings won the Davis County Clipper Invitational on Tuesday in convincing fashion. "This is a good mix of hard working kids." said Viewmont coach Bart Thompson after the LAYTON'S Josh Lamano takes his man down. victory They are goal onented kids, who work extremely hard and believe in themselves." Viewmont. who finished in third place m last weekends Isytcn teles second piece - SALT LAKE CITY Davis County had a strong showing in the Layton Championship Wrestling Tournament this weekend, which began on Friday at Layton High, and concluded Saturday at the JDelta Center in Salt Lake. There were a lot of great wrestlers there; said Laytons coach Mike Hansen. Every school was represented welT HansenS Lancers finished in second place overall, with 188 points, while the Viewmont Vikings came up with a third place finish, rallying up 181 points. Neither Layton or Viewmont could find an answer for the 3A Wasatch Wasps however, who showed up and ruled over their counterparts from larger schools, winning five championship matches Wasatch ended on Saturday with an astounding 234.5 total points.A big winner for the Wasps was Rich Cordova, who beat Laytons Josh division. Lamano in tire Layton, who has a strong team this year carrying five returning state placers from last year, got a strong showing in their own tournament, getting a championship win division. Other Lancers cm the from Zack Lamano in the board were Blake Isom in second place (103), Todd Ricks in second (152) Jordan Brown also in second (215) and Taylor Mallard in third (145), We had some good rounds," said Hansen. We do a good Job at getting better during the year; After the tournament was over. Coach Hansen praised the level of wrestling competition in Utah. Were very competitive here, he said. Weve got kids at a lot of diffWnnt txrtleges vrtrotoC'Alh Americans.- In an'uttenrpt to BYUs wrestling program, a match against No. Iowa was held at the Delta Center after the high school meet. The Cougars need to raise $7 million to retain wrestling. It could be a great program with the right support, said Hansen. (Losing it) would be more than losing a college program, it would effect wrestling at all levels in the state. J A TIGHT SQUEEZE: Viewmont's Zac Morby and Bountiful's battle it out at the Davis County Clipper Invitational Tueday. 5-- 3. 135-pou- Davis plays messy basketball contest BY DOUG LANG Clipper Today Sports Writer wnr - - KAYSVTLLE The Woods Cross Wildcats gave the Darts their fourth loss of the preseason with a 5341 troundng on Tuesday night. As with every story there is always two sides. For the 'Cats you would find in this good passing, good ball movepro-sc::- cn ment. great defense and two guards in junior Dallas Mudrow and sophomore Brock Beck left the Darts standKAYSVTLLE - The Davis Darts ran into a buzz saw by the name of the Fremont Silverwolves as the W'olves pummeled the Darts hi a ing in cement. On the Darts side of the ! 6249 showdown. - , coin, you could describe this game in one word,UGLY. The Darts should have a If the first two scores were to "No Vacancy sign the next decide the outcome of the game, you time the Wolves come to saw that as Brock Beck hit the first town as they showed Davis land and two shots from .three-poihow to put the ball in the hole. the iftRffslhafr spark of You have to give e Fremont credit for the way 4lnomentuni needed to' wifi the game. As for all tU tans that attended y that they played; said Davis coach Jay Welk.They really Tuesday nights' game, they saw the Darts try to put the ball in the hole, but came to play and they exee cuted their they could not even hit the Pacific Ocean if they tned. Davis could not game plan of going into seem to find the needed rhythm and Jared Jensen for an inside colthe intensity needed to get into this when we then and game game. lapsed on Jensen they You have to give Woods Cross pushed the ball out to Mike Shaw for the score. Bryce credit, said Darts head coach Jay Welk.They took good shots, and they (Build) has a great team and did a lot of things very well. They had it to us. took they really Davis tried their luck again on Friday, as they faced the Mountain good patience, and played good defense. We didnt execute our game View Bruins. No one ev er said that games were supposed to be easy and this game was no exception as the Bruins eked out a 0 win over the Darts. Bruins head coach Rob Cuff feels that Davis is underrated. 1 think that they are the best 0--3 team in the state, he said. We had a good first half and we had to make adjustments in the second half. We had to stay poised. Davis is very well coached and are very well rounded. Davis l:sos tv.o in nt .vt-gav- r inside-outsid- pre-seas- The Falcons finished m second place on the evening, with Beackstead Photo by Ron Osborn see WRESTLING" pg. B8 Wildcats malice victims off Davis 125-pou- . Nick 215-pou- Layton High Championship Tournament, totaled 2b3 total points in the tournament that included the wrestling teams from Bountiful. Clearfield and Woods Cross who played host to the event ' Viewmont sent 11 wrestlers to the championship round of the 14 weight divisions, and won 10 of them. Winners for the Vikes were Ben Kjar (103). Zach Morby ( 1 12). Wade Steed (119). Andy Sims (125). Jon Robbins (130). Josh Kennedy (135). Marc Tenwitk (140). Robert Wiser (152). Hadyn Call ( 171 ) and Luke Kjar (189). Clearfield also sent 10 wrestlers to championship round, winning three. Falcons James Parker and Tim Koster comprised the last match in the class, along with Pratt Aaron and Chns Martinez in the final round for the Falcon winners were Bryce Galbraith (189). Tim Koster (215) and Aaron Pratt (275). The Bountiful Braves sent Matt Knighton (119), Matt plan the way that we would like. Right now we are playing playground basketball and we have to overcome this. We can do this but we have to stay positive and work together as a team? - in the first two quarters, both teams had a hard time getting the ball to drop, and at the end of the half it showed as the Darts went for 30 percent, and Woods Cross hit 0 for 35 percent. Not the prettiest game m the world, but things would heat up m the second half for the Cats. For the Darts. Kelly White had his best game in this young season. White would lead the team with 11 points and more important m hustle points. White made his presence know with more activity winch ieads to more rebounds and blocks. At key points in the game. Whites energy would transfer to his team, but the energy was dispersed as the Darts could not get the job done. At the start of the second half. Woods Cross; Rick Winder had his team put a full court press on the Darts which added to the Darts' misery and this would lead to steals for the 'Cats and more mental errors on 7-- the Darts. Another presence on the floor was Josh Smith. He patrolled the middle and would not let the Darts get inside for any kind of scoring threat. Woods Cross would keep pouring more wood on the fire and with Mudrow and Beck leading the puck. Woods Cross came out on top. Both teams tned to light up the see "WILDCATS" pg. B8 KELLY WHITE of Davis extends his 6'6" frame for the layup over Wildcat defenders Tuesday night. Photo by Ron Osbom 68-6- Lancers topple Box Elder 66-5- 7 Clcarfiald v.lns tourncir.:r.t CLEARFIELD - By going undefeated in their own annual girls basketball tournament, the Clearfield Falcons beat Viewmont in the event. I thought we did real final game 5247 to win die weekend-lonwell for having such a young team, said Clearfields coach CK Hansen of his team that boasts only one starting senior. On Thursday the first day of play, the Falcons beat up on the Tooele Buffaloes for a 6742 win. In the win against Tooele, Jenny Overdiek scored 19 points for Clearfield, while senior 1 laley Barker added 16 in the Falcons' massacre. Vriewmont hxked even more impressive in the first round, pummeling the Roy Royals 7040. Senior Brooke Green threw in 18 points for the Vikings to move them on to the next round The second day of the tourney, saw more strong play from the Falcons and Vikings as they beat Fremont and Cottonwood respectively In Clearfield's 5 win over the Silverwolves, Haley Barker again showed up strong with a whopping 24 points, including five three pointers. Jenny Miller added 15, while Overdiek got 10. With this group, any given day could be someone elses turn to score big." said Hansen. Viewmont got a big 25 points from Kristen Crockett m their win, while Green continued to play strong w ith 13 points. Saturday the final round of play in the tournament. saw the Vikings and the Falcons finally meet up as they had dominated the tournament. In a dose game. Clearfield came away with the 5247 win. getting 13 points from Overdiek. Crockett and Green didn't Mop tlieir level of play for the V ikings as they put up another 22 and 15 points respectively for the Vikes. Our goal has been to keep our opponents under 50 points and we did that," said Hansen. If we can do that, we teel we can score that many BY LYNN AVERETT Clipper Todav Sports Writer LAYTON - One of the most under rated teams m boy 's high school basketball may be the Layton Lancvrs. In their founh game of the season. luyton hosted Box Flder and the Lancvrs stopjvd the Bees ho-5n Tuesday night in action to go 0 In the first three games, lay ton has beaten Hunter Weber 834' 3 and Bonneville g nt 7 4-- 63-4- 8. 54-4- 71-5- -- COPY non-regio- It's all nght with me if people under rate us. said 1 ay ton coach Scott Applegate We just have to worry about ourselves. Although Box I lder fell behind early, the Bees came to play and challenged the lance is GET OPCN: Woods Cross looks for the open man in Tuesday night's region game between the Darts and the Wildcats , Photo by Ron Osborn non- throughout the contest I expected this type of game. Box I lder plavs solid defense and they get after you." saul Applegate "It w as a nigged and physical game and they are the best team weve faced so far" luylon started fast, going up 84) and then 13-- 2 before Box I lder turned up then defensive pressure to get back in the game The lancers made a run at 14-- to end the period at 18-In the second, the Bees outscored the lancers 1 and only trailed at the break. Troy Gvxxkll scored nine and Shad McCord added seven in the second penod for laylon while David Sates paced Box Elder with eleven In the third, both teams played solid defense and going into the fourth. Laylon led 4642. Defensively weve been placing well." said Applegate. Offensively we have to take better care of the Kill and plav under more control. lav ton pulled away in the' fourth on strong plav bv Goodell. Nate Stewart and Justin Odckirk to keep the 35-3- see "LANCERS" pg. B8 |